Sunday, April 22, 2012

Monaco,the destination... not the biscuit!

Blogdosts, I am leaving tonight.It is to a super glamourous destination.... and I am most excited. I have been to this tiny, jewel-like principality thrice earlier. But even that is not enough. Imagine! Thrice is not enough!!
I shall attempt blogging from Monaco and Paris.... I'm sure the Business Centre of the world famous Hotel de Paris will be accessible.... I hate travelling with my laptop. God knows it's arduous enough to negotiate international airports.... why get weighed down with additional baggage?
As always, I shall miss this space.... this connect.
Au revoir, mes amies.... as you can tell, I am practicing my school girl French, abhi se!
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This appeared in Asian Age yesterday.....

Murder
on the Mumbai menu….

It doesn’t happen
only in C-grade crime thrillers. It’s happening now! In a city nearest you!Mumbai
has beaten Delhi
in a particularly macabre game. It involves diabolical murders and sleazy plots
that make even the horrific Jessica Lall killing look amateurish and clumsy.
There was a time when Mumbaikars would express shock and awe at the violent
goings on in the Capital. We would say a trifle smugly, “Thank God we live in a
civilized city… we are spared!” Ha, ha,
ha! We’d read about Aarushi Talwar’s murder and tch- tch sanctimoniously (“This
would never happen in Mumbai!”). Till a recent spate of grisly , cold blooded killings
woke us up to a harsh new reality. The day Neeraj Grover’s body was discovered,hacked
into several pieces, and Emile Jerome along with Maria Susiaraj became
household names across the country, Mumbai received a rude wake up call.Now,
after a series of sadistic crimes involving young ambitious starlets, ruthless
boy friends, and merciless pimps, all of whom have conspired to kill innocent victims in cold blood, Mumbai isn’t
smirking. The latest sultry siren on the crime radar is someone called Simran
Sood (RGV must be hot on her trail). Going by reports, she is a seasoned
operator on Mumbai’s frenetic party circuit, making sure she gets into hard
core IPL after- parties, where she networks with cricketers, movie stars and
other influential people. Had it remained there, Simran would have been one
more pushy starlet, willing to sleep around in the hope of getting a break.
There are thousands like her on the fringes of Bollywood - attractive, sexy
party girls who don’t let go of an opportunity to make money, score drugs and
trap richie- rich men . Mumbai is an expensive city. Survival is one thing. But
flashing a luxurious lifestyle, quite another. Someone’s got to pay for it!
After the sensational murder of Arun Tikku, the 64- year-old- father of Anuj
Tikku, Simran’s name is being thrown
around in a more lethal context.She has changed her lurid story several times
and her latest ‘confession’ has her as the accused killer, Vijay Palande’s wife
(earlier, she called herself his sister / niece / friend). There are a lot of
red faces in Bollywood and beyond, as
Simran’s Facebook account shows her
posing with assorted celebrities like Neil Nitin Mukesh, Gautam Vora, various
cricketers and others.

The modus operandi
in most of these cases involves smart, good looking girls ( ‘Honey traps’ as
our cops call them) and their dangerous liaisons with hardened criminals. The
motives are the same – greed. In this case, Simran’s ‘associate’ ( for want of
a better word) gangster Vijay Palande has also confessed to killing Karan
Kakkad , a rich boy from Delhi, because Palande fancied Kakkad’s BMW. Kakkad was yet another Delhi bakra who wanted a touch of glamour in his life.Kakkad wanted a shot at –
you’ve guessed it – Bollywood. There are dozens of Kakkads who fly into Mumbai
with stars in their eyes, and a couple of crores in their pocket. Fortunately,
most of them go back broke, but alive. Those who are desperate, seek out the
Simrans and Palandes who prey on such gullible men…. and increasingly, slit
their throats when they are of no further use. Anuj Tikku was spared this
grisly end, but Arun,his poor father
paid for his mistake of coming to Mumbai. Little could Sr. Tikku have known
about the sinister plot that had been hatched by Palande to kill the old man, kill
his son, and grab their pricy properties. He had done it before. He was sure,
he could do it again.

Just as the city was
recovering from this blood curdling story, came the equally shocking news of a Dehradun girl, 26-year-old Meenakshi Thapa, who was
butchered by two people she’d met during a film shoot. Unable to claim a hefty
ransom (15 lakhs) from Thapa’s family, the accused chopped her up, threw her
body parts out of a running bus, flung her decapitated head into a water tank
at Allahabad,
and resumed their normal activities as if nothing had happened. According to
the cops, one of Meenakshi’s alleged killers ( Amit Kumar Jaiswal) is a lawyer,
the other ( Preeti Surin) his assistant. All three had tenuous showbiz links.
Meenakshi had worked as a junior artist in Madhur Bhandarkar’s under production
‘Heroine’.No matter how these scripts read, the bottom line remains the same.
There is a pattern to all three murders remains alarmingly similar, with
Bollywood as the centerpiece. Whether Simran the seductress also worked as a
match fixer, whether she really had a torrid affair with socialite broker
Gautam Vora ( notorious for being the boy friend of Viveka
Babaji, the statuesque model who committed suicide), or she knew some of the other celebs whose
pictures she posted on Facebook, one thing is clear – Bollywood Dreams are at the centre of unbelievable violence.We used to mock
Dilliwallas and the ease with which young girls were snuffed out at friendly,
neighbourhood bars and clubs for their grave crime of not serving drinks to
unsavoury characters after closing hours. Mumbai’s recent record shows how
swiftly this megapolis has overtaken Delhi
in the society crime department.

Even as Jerome, the
handsome, athletic Naval officer sweats it out in jail, his girl friend has
calmly gone back to the family fold in Mangalore. Today there are new
criminal-celebs on the scene, with equally sadistic murders attached to their
names. Let’s call it the Bollywood Syndrome. And let these murders be terrible
and terrifying reminders to all those young men and women who arrive in Mumbai
hoping to become Kareena Kapoor and Salman Khan. Bollywood is unapologetically
carnivorous. It devours the unwary and innocent … spits out bones. Its appetite
is huge. It’s beast without a conscience. Come here … and be prepared to die.

After the introduction of this new verificatio, I could not post comments as easily as I used to do previously.I know advertisers and spammers are misusing the site blatantly and I think they should be taken to task so that they cant do this again and again. Why to punish innocent commentators like me in this way? Of course it is fun, when I have some time on my hands.

Scary!!! Very scary indeed. Thank god, we've been guided by our protectors on our recent trip. But still after reading all these information post my India trip, now I think it's time to say farewell to India. I even took off all my fun & joyful blogs after coming across some very pervert, boyish minded, & unattractive middle aged men on twitter who survive with dying humor as back up. I guess it's also best if to shut down Facebook as well. I'm glad I'm on twitter & the space is very limited just to exchange dialogues within 140 character. Loved it, in other words it teaches us so many things that lacks in our real world. Also great source of information to know whats going on in other side of world. Big alarming!! I always admired those people behind mask that leaves us with such a great impression. So much to learn from them. More power to them.

I just read your comment after posting my own comment. I must agree with you as well. Previously I just love commenting with my own identity but then after some social network experience it had enlightened my views & judgement. Word to you!!!!

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